Anne-Marie Te Whiu is an Australian-born-Māori whose whakapapa belongs to Te Rarawa iwi through her father’s line and English, Irish and Welsh through her mother’s ancestry. She is a freelance poet, editor, cultural producer and weaver whose central praxis focusses on artistic collaboration and platforming the determination and amplification of Indigenous and POC artists. She has directed and curated literary festivals and events for over 20 years, such as Zillmere Multicultural Festival (2005), Home Festival (2011-2013), Queensland Poetry Festival (2015-2017), Brisbane Writers Festival (Aotearoa & Pasifika program 2022), Red Room Poetry (Senior Producer 2019 – 2023), QTOPIA (Queer First Nations Languages exhibition, 2024) Aotearoa NZ Festival of the Arts Writers Program (co-director 2024) and Boundless Festival (Writing NSW, 2025). She is the Acting Chair of Blak & Bright (2024-2025) and was previously a Board Member of Emerging Writers Festival (2024) and Running Dog Journal (2024). She was a founding member of Taraheke Collective (2022). She has guest edited multiple poetry collections and journals including Woven (Magabala, 2024), More Than These Bones (Magabala, 2023) Whisper Songs (UQP, 2021), Solid Air: Australia & NZ Spoken Word (UQP, 2019) Debris Journal: Issue 02 Hospitality (2022) and Cordite Journal: 116 Remember (2025). She has been selected as part of the 2025 Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity Masters program hosted by Melbourne University. Previously she attained certificates in the intensive Master of Indigenous Studies: Māori Indigenous Futures: The Gift of Intergenerational Thinking, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, 2022 as well as Te Hiringa a Tuhi, the Māori and Pasifika Creative Writing Workshop at Victoria University of Wellington's International Institute of Modern Letters, Victor Roger, 2019. Her work has been published broadly on various platforms (anthologies, journals, magazines, exhibitions) across Australia and Aotearoa including SBS, In*ter*is*land Collective, Open Book (State Library of NSW), Tupuranga Journal, Awa Wahine, un_Projectors, Kaldor Public Art Projects, BLEED 2022, Contemporary Hum, Another Australia, No Other Place to Stand, Rabbit Journal, Cordite Journal, Australian Poetry Journal and more. She has been awarded several fellowships including the Australia Council Individual Projects Fellowship, Neilma Sidney Travel Fund, The Next Chapter Fellowship as well as The Next Chapter Alumni Fellowship. She has received multiple residencies including The Church Rawene Residency, Varuna Residential Fellowship, Bundanon Artist in Residence, Clothing Stores Artist Studio Carriageworks, Unyoked Writers Residency and a Running Dog Writer’s Residency. Her debut poetry collection titled METTLE will be published by University of Queensland Press in 2025.
Media
Australian Book Review
Arts Hub
Books + Publishing The Age
The Conversation
Meanjin
Arts Hub
The Illawarra Flame
scenstr
QPF 2015 program
SLQ
Broadsheet
The Creative Issue
Peril
Gilimbaa
Overland
The Weekend Edition
BEMAC
In 2018, I was commissioned to program the Moving Words event with QAGOMA and the Commonwealth Games.
In collaboration with Ariana Tikao I exhibited weavings as part of a collective exhibition at BlakDot Gallery in April 2022.
ABC RN Mornings
Poetry Says
Isolated Nation
The Courier Mail
